UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2020

Rochester, MI, USA

Unusual aircraft captured by video

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-08
Where
Rochester, MI, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.681, -83.134 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-rochester-mi-2020-5c9925
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Rochester, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 179 sightings in 2020.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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